From:	rabiola <rabiola@**.NETCOM.COM>
Subject:	Re: Skateboard mishaps (wuz: rollerblades)
Date:	Sat, 9 May 1998 03:48:06 -0500

>
>I was thinking, wouldn't it be cool if there were air-cushion/ground
>effect driven boards, similar in concept to the Microskimer drone,
>execpt sleeker and designed for a person to stand on? The fun thing
>is, if you take certain liberties with R2 vehicle construction rules,
>you can base these things off of a large skimmer chassis.
>
>I had the stats for one of these worked out somewhere, but the numbers
>I'd worked out were for the 'muchkin extreme' end of the scale (I was
>running various scenarios through the R2 construction rules, to see if
>I could break them.)
>
>So, what do you all think, are skim-boards just a silly idea, or is
>there some merit to the concept?


Reminds me of the boards used in Back to the Future II, or even, heaven
forbid, Highlander II; still a bit beyond current SR tech levels, at
least for me.

Tony Rabiola rabiola@**.netcom.com
Fourth and Sixth World Adept
Still working on the Fifth...